Twitter Starts Serving Ads For Third Party Apps (But They Aren't Charging For Them)

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Twitter has started to advertise a number of applications using the small box on profile pages that it first introduced earlier this month. Before today Twitter had reserved the space for links to its own services like Search, but now they are advertising a number of sites and apps, including Tweetie, a popular iPhone client.

The ads are unobtrusive, and they’re promoting useful applications that are all Twitter-related so they blend nicely with the page. The question now is how much money is actually changing hands – John Battelle writes that Federated Media is sharing some of its revenues from ExecTweets, but also notes that Twitter has a history of promoting apps it finds interesting without getting paid for it.

Update: Tweetie developer Loren Brichter says that he actually isn’t paying Twitter a cent to get featured on the site. Twitter came to him, explaining that it wants to promote projects like Tweetie which promote “variety, relevance, and value” (apparently a number of Twitter employees use the app).

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OverviewTwitter is a global social networking platform that allows its users to send and read 140-character messages known as “tweets”. It enables registered users to read and post their tweets through the web, short message service (SMS), and mobile applications.
As a global real-time communications platform, Twitter has more than 400 million monthly visitors and 255 million monthly active users around …